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. oppositeface provided` with two projecting useful, Improvement in Vgles connecting walls E with the ledge andI and illed,the one to correspond Awith the other,

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DANIEL osoin Lor, or Moni?ici-unito,' ILLiN'ois.

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SPECIE: CATION forming pm of Letters Application filed Febrnaryl, 1587. Serial No. 228,579.-

Be it known that I, DANisL Oscin Low, of Monticello, Piatt county, Illinois, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new 'and Tile-Work, of which i the following is a specification, referring to the :,iccompanying` drawings, in which- Figure 1 illustrates the tile work in course' of construction as a pavement. Fig. 2 illustrates same as a wall-coping. Fig. 3 illus- Figs. 4t' to 15 illustrate various modes of cut-ti ng tlie'tile and iigures formed therefrom. Fig. 16 also illustrates formation'of the tile.

This invention consists in al peculiar improved system of tile-work for pavingwalks, doors, &c.;. and for coping, and in tile therefor, as set forth hereinafter and as illustrated.

The tile-work is formed of tiles A,of square, oblong, octagonal, or other forms. These tile are cach made with one plain surface and an ledges, B, along two opposite sides, and a sunken channel, C, between them, having its side walls, E,"undcrcnt to form a dovetailed seat to engage with andhold the ledgesof like tile in an opposite course, and havingthe anchannel planes curved or otherwise cut away to strengthen the incnt angle and to enable the two ledges of the opposed tile to iit solidly together.

The tile A are formed on hollow tile-machines having diessuitably formed, by cutting the material into two halves as 4it comes from the machine, and dividing these into sections, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 16, or in any other suitable'way. v

. The tile are built into two layers or courses, with their plain-faces outward and their channcledfaces together,'liaving their projecting ledges fitted into the channels of the opposite courses to Lbind them together into one structure. The ledges of adjoining tile in-one course fit into one tile of the other course, and the ledges of vthis in turn fit in a like way into the channels of those, together with the ledges of its adjoining tile. This arrangement forms a' peculiar structure of interlocking ledges of one forms a l ,4, over the throughout to any extent, which `bind the PatentN'o. 362,846, dated May 410, 1887.

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` whole' togetlierwithbonds in the dircctionof the plane'ot' the structure, .while thcdove tailing 'of Itheledges of two tile into thelchannel thereto, which prevents any'single 4tile being removed either from a pavement or wall or from a coping, as in Figs. l andZ; Theledges are Ahalf the width of the channel .to enable those of two to fit intoonc in this way.vv

The tileare built into pavements, as illusbond` iny a directionvertical trated in Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7,"'for ,walks or lloo'rsin thisway and into walls in a-correspending way. In this each tile of one course fits into the channels of vfour tile in the vother course, overlapping and covering the joints both ways, and. interlocking` with'. them;- sp

they mutually hold each other in place. Thealternate tile ofthe .upper course are formed 1 of burned clay, as are those of the lowerlayer,

and the intermediate tile of the upper course are formed of cement or other plastic matcrial, which is run in and leveled off to fill up the spaces in all directions tothe clay .tile of the upper course and to the-dovetailed channels of the lower course andinto all spaces .between the adjoining tile in both courses, so

as t'o render the whole structuresolid, binding it together securely/thus securing a result not practicable with burned tile alone. In some cases the corners of the top layer are cut off and fillcd'in a like way 'to secure this result. Inother d'cases the top course or a portion of it is formed of tile of less size than the lower course, and is placed in the same way, Fig. joints of the lower course, leaving spaces between the top tile, as shown', which are filled in sult.

A great variety of ornamental patterns are made by varying the colors, the sizes of the corner-cuts, and their arrangement, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and Sto 15, and'varions other modifications may be made.

1. A tile having one'plaiu surface and an the saine way to produce this re` opposite face provided with two projecting ledges and ,a sunken channel twice their width between them, having undercut side walls,by which it engages dovetail-like with a support, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2'.. A'tile having one 'plain face and an op- IOC . p tile having a plain outerjfaee and pai-alle.

thereto faces toward each other,which on eachy posite face providedwith two projecting ledges and a sunken channel twicetheir width between them, yhaving side walls undercut l and their angles removed correspondingly, 'so

l gether by both lateral and dovetail bonds.

` 4. The structure formed of twocourses o" tile have two projecting ledges andla dovetail channel vbetween them, into which fit ledges from four tiles in the opposite course,by which the whole are bound together bya lateral and a dovetailed bond.

5..'The structure formed of two courses oftile havin-g a plain outer face and interlock; ing faces toward .each other, which on-eaoh tile have two projecting ledges anda dovetail channel between them, into which t ledges from lfour tilesin 'the opposite conrse,by which the whole are bound together by a lateral and' a dovetail bond, aportion of the tile in the upper 'con rse formed by `being filled with plas tic materials, substantially asset forth.

` 6'. A pavement formed-in two courses of-tile having a plain'outer face and interlocking faces toward each other, havingon each 'tile vtwo projecting ledges and a channel -between them, in to which fit ledges from tiles in the op posite course, thetileof the top course having corners cut rials.

7. 1'Ina pavement, the combination of two courses of tile having a plain outer surface and interlocking faces toward eachother,Y having on each tile two projectingledges and a channel between them, into which tit ledges /from away and filled with plastic matei other tilesin the. opposite course, giving alateral bond, a portion of the tile ofthe upper course being formed by filling vspaces with plasI- tic materials, substantially as set forth.

8v. In a pavement,- a course `of tile provided with upward projecting dovetai'led ledges,-

combined with a coursev of tile thereon, a portion ofthe tile of which have channels and engage on opposite sides of ledges, and another portion vof which lie between and engage with ledges on opposite sides of them, substantially as set forth.` v .Y

SAMI J. WALLACE,

M. A. yBALLINGER. 

